Photo: Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · CC BY 2.0The heritage near Crescent Heights: 14 places in a 5 km radius
From Crescent Heights, look 1.6 km away, to Downtown East Village, for the nearest place of the highest designation. Homes from before 1961 make up 29% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town.
The highest designation, 8 times, within 5 km of Crescent Heights
The registers hold 14 within 5 km. They belong to 6 towns, chiefly Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Downtown East Village. By age, Fort Calgary leads, from 1875, at 1.8 km.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 900 m away, in Sunnyside |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 1.5 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 1.6 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1.6 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 1.7 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 1.7 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 1.7 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 1.7 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Fort CalgaryNational Historic Site · 1875–1876 · 1.8 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 2.3 km away, in Hillhurst |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 2.3 km away, in Beltline |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 2.6 km away, in Beltline |
Within 5 km of Crescent Heights, the decades after Confederation left the most
Within 5 km of Crescent Heights but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
The chart rests on 11 dated places within 5 km. Oldest of all: Fort Calgary, Downtown East Village, 1875.
The biggest share of Crescent Heights’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 34%
From 2016 to 2021 Crescent Heights added 5.5% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Few of Crescent Heights’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 18%, the norm 23%. Half of the homes standing in Crescent Heights today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Crescent Heights compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,400 to 6,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Bay Roberts and Petrolia. Their median is 0. For 14, the registers list nothing.
Crescent Heights and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent Heights | 6,411 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Renfrew | 6,685 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Eau Claire | 3,733 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bridgeland/Riverside | 6,860 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sunnyside | 2,976 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Downtown East Village | 3,524 | 2 | 2 | 1875 |
| Rosedale | 2,507 | 0 | 0 | — |
Crescent Heights in brief
Crescent Heights’s homes from before 1961 come to 29%, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
Questions about Crescent Heights’s history
How many historic places does Crescent Heights have on the registers?
Inside Crescent Heights, none so far; Centre Street Bridge, 900 m away in Sunnyside, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Crescent Heights?
29% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).